High Performance 3D Entertainment Accelerator

PC Home 7/97 PC Professionell 3/97 PC Praxis 1/98

PC Action 2/97 PC Review 4/97 GameStar 2/98

PC Direkt 12/96 Computer Buyer 4/97 Computerbild 08/98

PC Games 6/97 PowerPlay 12/96 Computerbild 08/98

Specification

• 3Dfx Interactive Voodoo chip set
• 4 MB EDO DRAM on board for:
• 2 MB frame buffer & z-buffer
• 2 MB texture memory
• PCI bus 2.x compliant
• Analog pass through (connection to standard VGA output)

Hardware Features

• Perspective correct texture mapping
• Bi-linear and advanced texture filtering
• Level of detail (LOD) MIP mapping
• Sub-pixel correction
• Polygonal-based Gouraud shading and texture modulation
• 24-bit internal, 16-bit dithered RGB frame buffer
• Multiple format texture buffer (8-bit and 16-bit)
• 1, 2, and 4 Mbytes of frame/aux buffer memory per pixelfx
• 1, 2, and 4 Mbytes of texture memory per texelfx
• 45 Mpixels/sec sustained fill rate for bilinear or advanced filtered textures
• 1,000,000 Textured triangles/sec on a P-166 PCI system
• Anti-aliasing
• Z-buffering (16-bit)
• Alpha blending
• Per-pixel special effects: fog, transparency, translucency
• Texture compositing, morphing, animation
• Linear frame buffer access

Software

Basic software:

• Easy to use install program
• Driver for Microsoft Direct3D for Windows® 95
• Driver Glide register level compatibility software for full screen coin-op/arcade games for DOS (Windows 3.1 / Windows® 95 )

Retail Product without games and Retail Product with games available

Retail version with games include:

• Psygnosis

- Formula 1 full version

(Click images to see 640x480 pixels screenshots from "Formula 1")

• Interplay

- Descent II: Destination Quartzon (OEM version)

• Activision

- Mech Warrior2 (full game)
- Hyperblade (full game)

• Demo / Light versions

- EF2000
- Tomb Raider
- Scorched Planet

• Microsoft Game Sampler 2 with the trial versions of:

- Monster Truck Madness
- Hellbender
- and 14 other games ( demo or light versions)

All this games mentioned with their names are Monster 3D accelerated versions of the game or accelerated by the Monster 3D board.

Other Monster 3D accelerated games...

What you get...

• Monster 3D Graphics Add On Board
• Pass-Through cable
• CD-ROM’s with installation software and Online Manuals
• Hardware installation manual

System Requirements

• Recommended: Pentium 100 MHz or better
• MS Windows®95 or DOS 5.0 or higher
• 1 free PCI Slot

Service & Support

• 5 years warranty
• free Software updates via BBS, Internet (www.diamondmm.de), CompuServe (GO SPEA)
• Fax-on-Demand system
• Technical support through Hotline

Display Modes

Colors are 24 bit dithered to a 16 bit RGB (65k colors) output.

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